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People asked to back new project enhancing Exeter’s wildflowers

People are being asked to help increase Exeter's wildflowers by backing a project that seeks to brighten up the city even more.

Devon Wildlife Trust has launched a Crowdfunder scheme to create more wildflower meadows across the county.

In Exeter the Trust are joining up with the City Council to further enhance the displays of wildflowers that have been bursting with colour on roadside verges, roundabouts and open spaces.

People are being asked to support the scheme by donating to Crowdfunder. People have until the end of Friday to make their pledges and can do so by...

St. Margaret's Church Flower Festival

Event Date: 
18/07/2019 - 10:00am to 20/07/2019 - 10:00am
Venue: 
St. Margaret's Church, Fore Street, Topsham

ST MARGARET’S CHURCH, TOPSHAM PATRONAL FLOWER FESTIVAL 2019 FLIGHTS OF FANCY!

The festival will take place on Thursday 18th July and Friday 19th July from 10.00-6.00 and on Saturday 20th July from 10.00-5.00 in St. Margaret’s Church, Topsham.

Bring your friends and enjoy the delicious refreshments and lunches! Entry free. The funds raised this year will be shared between St. Margaret’s Church and MAF - MISSION AVIATION FELLOWSHIP.

“We enable over 2,000 aid, development and mission organisations to bring medical care, emergency relief, long-term development and...

Wild Flower project set to bloom again in Exeter

Wild flowers are set to bloom across Exeter again this summer as the City Council confirmed its commitment to the Wild City project, working alongside Devon Wildlife Trust to keep our roadside verges and roundabouts looking pretty and helping save our threatened insect population.

Wild flower seeds will be sown across Exeter in March with colourful blooms expected around July.

In previous years, the blooms have been popular amongst residents and visitors alike and help provide valuable habitat for insects and other wildlife.

A report in the Biological Conservation...

Your guide to What's On this weekend

Your essential guide to What’s On in and around Exeter this weekend (9-11 February).

THEATRE

Twelfth Night Friday & Saturday, Barnfield Theatre, Exeter Set twelve days after Christmas, perhaps the party has gone on too long? Perhaps the guests are a little hungover? Perhaps they’ve left it a little late to find true love? Director Ian Berry promises, ‘This stellar cast brings so much comic energy and fizz it will feel like Christmas has come again!” http://www.barnfieldtheatre.org.uk

Queen C*nt: Sacred or Profane Friday & Saturday, Bike Shed Theatre,...

Flower Festival 'In Our Element' Crediton Parish Church

Event Date: 
02/06/2018 - 10:30am to 07/06/2018 - 5:00pm
Venue: 
Crediton Parish Church

The Crediton Parish Church Flower Festival is one of the main fundraising events for the upkeep of Holy Cross and many people from our parishes work to make it a very special and memorable week.

The 2018 Festival has the intriguing title ‘In Our Element’ and runs from 10.30am on Saturday 2nd June until 5 pm on Thursday 7th June.

Work towards the 2018 Flower Festival began as soon as the 2017 Festival ended. The title of the last Festival was ‘What’s the Point’, and a big talking point was a rhino in the church.

This rhino, kindly loaned by Exeter School was...

Exeter is looking bloomin' marvellous!

Exeter is looking bloomin’ marvellous thanks to a scheme to introduce wild flowers into everyday parts of the city. The Wild City project has seen Exeter City Council team up with Devon Wildlife Trust to encourage more nature into the city. This summer the scheme has paid dividends with roundabouts, parks and road verges breaking out in a riot of colour as the blooms of wild flowers enjoy the summer sunshine. The City Council has been inundated with letters and emails of praise from local residents and visitors enjoying the summer blooms. In Prince Charles Road, cars have been pulling up...

How do you get a rhino and a car into Church?

Authored by Melman5
Posted: Wed, 05/17/2017 - 1:58pm

Crediton is getting ready for a new visitor.

The team at Crediton Parish Church have to produce new themes and ideas each year, which will work as an exhibition with flowers. This year's Crediton Parish Church Flower Festival theme is no exception.

Intriguingly entitled 'What's the Point...', the team will be coaxing a rhino into church, with our outside broadcast crew taking photos and video from a safe distance.

Twelve months hard work goes into the planning and preparation for the Festival. If you wish to see how our talented (and brave) team...

It’s blooming good for National Trust

Authored by News Desk
Posted: Tue, 05/16/2017 - 10:51pm

Gardeners at three National Trust properties in Devon are celebrating a total of seventeen prizes across multiple categories, after a sweep of awards were won for rhododendron, magnolias, camellias and floral arrangements at the recent RHS Rosemoor Garden Show. Garden teams at Castle Drogo, Killerton and Greenway were thrilled to receive awards for their hard work nurturing the colourful flora, which visitors in Devon will be able enjoy when visiting the properties this season. Successes included ten prizes for Killerton, near Exeter, with four first prizes, three second prizes, two third...

Blooming Big Weekend for Gardens in Budleigh

Authored by Hospiscare
Posted: Wed, 06/22/2016 - 12:33pm

Over the weekend of the 25th and 26th June there is a treat in store for garden lovers. As part of the Open Gardens charity fundraiser for Hospiscare,13 Budleigh Salterton residents have got together for an Open Gardens extravaganza!

For this weekend only, you can pay £7 for a weekend pass which will allow you entry to all 13 gardens on both Saturday and Sunday. Or you can pay per visit, for only £2.50.

You will enjoy a wide variety of flora and fauna with gardens like Roundhill, created in 1929 by a retired rubber planter. Roundhill has eccentric features like a huge...

Patronal Flower Festival

Event Date: 
14/07/2016 - 10:00am to 16/07/2016 - 5:00pm
Venue: 
St Margaret's Church, Topsham

The Festival takes place on Thursday 14th, Friday 15th and Saturday 16th July in St. Margaret’s Church, Topsham.

We will be open from 10am to 6pm on the Thursday and Friday and until 5pm on the Saturday.

The funds raised this year will be shared between St. Margaret’s Church and "Peninsula Initiative", a charity which provides practical support for those leaving prison, helping them to make a fresh start in the community.

The theme is the SEVEN AGES OF MAN - very appropriate, given that this year is the anniversary of Shakespeare’s death.

There will be...

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